Have you ever waited 200 years for a train to arrive? Probably not — but this mural celebrates a journey that’s been two centuries in the making.

200 Years of Romance marks the bicentenary of the UK’s railway network, bringing together hundreds of photographs shared by the communities who work on, travel through, and live alongside the railways.

A colossal ribcage of wood juts out from a vivid yellow landscape. Has it been there decades or centuries? This sweeping mural unearths themes of nature, unrest and the passage of time.

ArtMongers gained permission to paint this gigantic wall several years before the pieces finally fell together to make it happen.